How to Increase Your Productivity with This One Simple Practice

Ending your work day, and knowing – deep down – it’s been a good day. A productive day.

Not only have you got a lot of work done, but you’ve got a lot of important work done.

Work that moves your business forward, planting seeds for potential new channels of customers, making that big step towards sealing that all-important contract that may secure a long term and fruitful business relationship.

The Research

It’s genetically ingrained in us, the need to physically move. Millions of years ago, it would’ve been required for our species to constantly undergo moderate intensity exercise to hunt and gather food and other necessities for our survival.

As a result, our brains reward us for exercising.

What our evolutionary DNA probably didn’t see coming is how our lifestyle would change into what it is now – prolonged and long term inactivity. Lucky for us, the benefits of exercise on our brain can be useful in the workplace.

As much as you think about your task at hand on any given work day, you also need to think about the future.

The wonderful thing about exercise is, you can do it for as long as your body will let you, and the best part: it is the reason that you may be able to pursue your business and entrepreneurial dreams longer than others.

Why? Exercise has been shown to prevent cognitive decline. In fact, it’s better than brain games. So instead of the newspaper games you play on your travel to work, try running to work. Your body and brain will thank you for it.

Furthermore, exercise is known to increase the amount of energy you have during the day.

How it does this is by stimulating the development of more mitochondria in the body.

Therefore, exercise increases the amount of energy you have. This is why you often hear or see top executives working out early in the morning. It sets them on a good standing for the rest of the day. Where possible, I try to do this before heading to the physiotherapy clinic.

Conclusion

Exercise is simple, yes, but it’s not easy. It requires that initial discipline to get going.

If you’re willing to commit to it, make it a part of your daily schedule, and have it set in your diary at a fixed time every day, it can result in you leaving each work day feeling that much more productive, efficient and even happier.

Like we agreed on earlier, there’s no better feeling than leaving your work at the end of the day and just knowing ‘it’s been a good day’.

Regular, consistent and structured exercise is one step you can make to leap forward into that feeling every day of the week.